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On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:08:09 BST Dale wrote: |
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> Laurence Perkins wrote: |
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> >> CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Do not click links or open |
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> >> attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is |
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> >> safe. |
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> >> |
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> >> Howdy all, |
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> >> |
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> >> My Sis-n-law has a Iphone. She takes TONS of pics and quite a lot of |
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> >> videos with it. Since a lot of them are family photos, I'd like to |
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> >> download them to my puter. I'd prefer to use Digikam since I can tell |
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> >> it to 'download new' next time and not have to worry about duplicates or |
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> >> missing some. Thing is, it can't access all the photo directories. I |
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> >> know there is about 4,000 files all together. Digikam only shows less |
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> >> than 1,000. I managed to copy them over using Dolphin but it took |
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> >> several tries and some disconnect and reconnecting to do it. |
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> >> |
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> >> I did see a error in messages that mtp-probe?? was missing. I found it |
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> >> and installed it. That error went away and it did improve things. Maybe |
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> >> I'm missing something else but dmesg and messages isn't complaining. |
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> >> |
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> >> What do others do to accomplish this? Is it normal to have issues with |
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> >> this or am I missing something? |
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> >> |
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> >> Dale |
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> >> |
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> >> :-) :-) |
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> > |
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> > It's a bit more work than maybe you're looking for, but I set up a |
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> > Nextcloud server and then all our phones have the Nextcloud app and are |
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> > set to automatically upload new pictures whenever they have an |
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> > appropriate connection. |
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> > |
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> > This does require maintaining a Nextcloud server or similar, but it also |
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> > makes it so that you don't have to plug the phone into anything, or even |
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> > remember to do it yourself. |
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> > |
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> > Furthermore, if you configure the Nextcloud app correctly, then when you |
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> > run low on space, you can tell it to remove the local copies of the older |
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> > pictures and it will keep only the thumbnails on the phone itself, but |
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> > can seamlessly pull them back in should you want to look at them |
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> > full-size. |
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> > |
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> > Plus it lets you synchronize notes for things like grocery lists at no |
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> > extra charge. |
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> > |
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> > I know a few people who use iPhones with Linux. It can usually be made to |
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> > work with some trouble, but Apple constantly tries to lock out third |
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> > party access, so it requires regular updates and tweaking. |
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> > |
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> > LMP |
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> So me having issues with it wasn't just me, it's just how it is. |
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> Great. Well, at least I know it isn't something I'm doing wrong. Guess |
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> I'll have to deal with it as is. I was hoping I could get it to work |
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> dependably with Digikam but maybe not. |
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> Thanks for the info. It helps clear up things. Just wish it worked as |
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> well as my Samsung. It works like a regular camera with no issues at |
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> all. :-) |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I have used app-pda/libimobiledevice and app-pda/ifuse as described here: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Apple_iPod,_iPad,_iPhone |
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Then dragged and dropped pictures with Dolphin. However, it was just a few |
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hundreds, rather than 4k. It worked fine. |
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